Our major media are not up to this election

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America’s political press have done a great job in many aspects of this election, but in some very important ways, our political media — specifically network and cable television — are out of their depth this cycle. They don’t know how to handle a reality TV candidate like Donald Trump, they don’t know how to cover conservative candidates playing for conservative voters, and they (we) certainly did not know how to predict such a wild race.

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